6834 of 739 lots
Lot Is Closed Three Illuminated Books
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6834
Three Illuminated Books
Sold
$175
Timed Auction
Railroad Crossing Discovery Auction: Closing February 3rd, 2025
Description
Including THE LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP SONNETS OF SHAKESPERE (Germantown, Pa.: Book-Lovers' Guild, 1901) With hand-colored initials signed K. McNabb, 4to., three-quarter calf, marbled boards and matching endpapers by James Arnold; Owen Jones, illus., GRAY'S ELEGY (London: Longman's, 1846) containing 18 chromlithograph leaves, printed on both sides, small 4to, deeply molded gothic style leather binding; and Henry Shaw, THE ART OF ILLUMINATION 2nd ed. (London: Bell & Daldy, 1870) 4to, pictorial cloth.
Condition
Gray's Elegy was a glued-back binding - the adhesive now decayed and the leaves all separated